Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall placeA limit to the giants unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? BryantThe Ages. XXXIII.

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. Lydia Maria ChildSupposititious Speech of James Otis. The Rebels. Ch. IV.

I want free life, and I want fresh air;And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,The crack of the whip like shots in battle,The medley of horns, and hoofs, and headsThat wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;The green beneath and the blue above,And dash, and danger, and life and love. F. DesprezLasca.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall.For what avail the plough or sail,Or land, or life, if freedom fail? EmersonBoston. St. 5.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Julia Ward HoweBattle Hymn of the Republic.

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a halter intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men. Josiah QuinceyObservations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774.

Freiheit ist nur in dem Reich der TräumeUnd das Schöne blüht nur im Gesang. Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the beautiful only blooms in song. SchillerThe Beginning of the New Century. St. 9.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles. Woodrow WilsonAddress to Congress. (War with Germany being declared.) April 2, 1917.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. Woodrow WilsonAddress to Congress. (War with Germany being declared.) April 2, 1917.